The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-19

| Owens, a colored driver who lives IN the
! upper part of Columbus discovered some
one trying to steal his hogs, Monday night
| Owens crept up to the thief and struck him
on the head with a heavy stick. Officer
| Smith, who was walking his beat. in that
neighborhood, says that the report was as
| loud as the report of a pistol. As soon as
| he heard the noise he started in that direc-
ton, and saw a man jump the fence and
make tracks toward the park. The officer
gave chase, but owing to the darkness he
fell sprawling into ditch, and the thief
made his escape.
Marcel Saunders (colored) the engineer
on the tramroad Of Messrs. Mcleod q Den
nard, in Wilcox county, was shot and killed
| on Sunday last while sitting at the table in
his house eating supper. The assassin placed
the muzzle of the gun through crack of
the house and fired, the load taking effect in
the head of Saunders and blowing out his
brains. Saunders was an industrious negro,
but we are informed that he had many enc
mics among the colored people in the neigh
borhood, and that he was greatly feared by
them. So far no clue has been obtained
leading to the detection of the assassin.
A company has been formed, and fifty
acres of land near Holton purchased, for
quarry that will supply Macon and the sur
rounding country with as good an article of
blue, gray and white granite as can be pro-
amined by experts and pronounced equal to
any ever used in Macon. The supply is
practically inexhaustible and it lies in such
way that it is readily gotten out The
quarry is about 400 yards from the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad,
about II miles from Macon, and it is the
purpose of the company TO run a side track
to the granite, thus making one loading. 1t
is estimated that after the side track is laid
the granite is so plentiful that the track will
not require extension in ten years.
Pat Pierce. of the Macon Truck Company,
lives on the bank of the river near the city
bridge. Wednesday morning, while his
wife was in the garden picking ochra she
heard her little 4-year-old son, who was in
another portion of the garden, scream out,
and ON running to him she saw large moe
casin glide away and into the weeds. She
picked up the boy and discovering that he
had been bitten on the leg by the snake, car
rled him to the house and began sucking
the wound. When she thought the poison
was out she gave the child whisky, and put
tobacco poultice on the wound DR.. Nc
Hatton was sent for and approved of the
remedies that had been applied, with the adj
dition of substituting, after little while, a
meal poultice for the tobacco. Wednesday
evening the little fellow seemed to be all
right.
A suit has been filed with the Clerk of
Cobb Superior Court by G. D. Phillips and
j. q. Foster, attorneys for Jackson Delk,
against the American Marble Company,
claiming 5000 damages to Mr.. Delk's mill
pond on Noses creek, situated about two
miles below said marble works The suit
values Mr.. Delk's flour and grist mill and
rock mill dam at IS, 900, and profits accruing
from said mill at $500 per annum. The suit
alleges that said American Marble Com
pany uses one and a half car loads of sand
per day and night, and by means of pipes
and drains elnpties this sand and marble
dust into the stream that flows into said
Delk's millpond, greatly filling up said rock
dam and lessening the water power, also
claiming that said pond is stocked with fish
valued at $500, and the accumulation of
fish is being interfered with
Carroll county Times: A fight occurred
out in Turkey creek district Tuesday morn
ing, and hand-saw was the weapon used
in the combat 1t appears that Charley
Griffith was teaching school in a house be-
longing to James Bryan A difference oc-
CURED between relative of Bryan's and a
student of the school, and Bryan told Grit
fifth to discontinue school in his
an, and Bryan went Tesday morning
to nail up his house and turn the school out.
A few words were passed between the peda-
gogue and irate owner of the house, and Mr.
Bryan hit Griffith on the head with a hand
saw, cutting considerable cash. Griffith
caught the second lick and kept it from
doing the effective work which Bryan
intended it TO do. The teacher left the
house at once He says he desired no COM
bat with Mr.. Bryan, who is n years old, so
he left the house.
Sandersville Herald: "a leading and
very reliable dry goods merchant of this
place told us on Saturday that his trade was
more satisfactory than it had been for years
past While not selling strictly for cash,
yet his cash sales this year were much larger
than usual, and much of this trade came
from the colored people, that formerly spent
their small change for whisky. Another
dry goods firm, we learn makes a similar
statement, that his cash trade is better than
heretofore We have heard from grocery
merchants, both here and at Tennlle,
statements that their sales had been much
improved since the closing of the barroomS.
These facts show the good effects of pro-
hibition. The present has been an excep-
tlonally hard year, money matters have
been very stringent, the number of dry
| goods stores is the same as last year, and vet
their sales are more satisfactory than for
merly. This is in harmony with the testi-
mony of business men in prohibition towns
generally"
The Court of County Commissioners of
johnson was recently thrown into great
surprise when they undertook TO teach
their predecessors "a moral lesson by having
them to appear before the present court to
be by it censured for drawing more pav
than the present incumbents thought they
were justly entitled to receive for their SER
vices wilhelm ioaices While the ex-Com-
missioners were there for that purpose and
reading the law creating the court and pro
viding pay for its officers, it was discovered
by reading the statute creating the court that
the term of Office of the old Commissioners
lacked two years of being terminated BY
the act of the Legislature creating
the court the Commissioners elected in
November, 1855, were to hold their Office
only two years: hence, after the election
came once in two years from the former
election, the people thought that the officers
were 10 be elected every two years-thus
the awkardness of the situation. The Gov
ernor will be consulted about the matter to
see if any means can he devised so as to OK
tricate the officers out OF their embarrassed
condition.
The Governor has received n rather I'M
usual document from Daingerfeld,. Morris
county, Tex. Ii consists of a letter and
manuscript poem consisting of sixty-three
stanzas. The poem is entitled "A Battle
Scared Confederate" and is intended TO be
the lament Of 4 gallant soldier, wounded in
battle, swith a limb gone upon the ingrati-
tlIde o. people for whom he spilled his
h1St blood. The letter states that the au-